Here's a little something to ease you into the weekend. Jason Lewis, who works for Obsidian as a senior environment artist, has lovingly recreated a series of environments from Star Wars in the Unreal 4 engine, and boy does it look wonderful.

Lewis was keen to teach himself the intricacies of Unreal 4 and, being a Star Wars obsessive (aren't we all?), decided to go the whole hog and create what is effectively a beautiful tech demo. Before he knew it, other Obsidian employees were involved and they had created something wonderful. Check it out.

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Too. Much. Prettiness.

"This is a just-for-fun personal project that we are all contributing to for no reason other than we are all a bunch of super Star Wars fans and with all the Star Wars awesomeness going on these days, we all thought it would be a good time to jump in and produce a quality fan art project," says Lewis on the site Level 80.

"In addition to just being a bunch of super Star Wars nerds, several of us have been wanting an excuse to learn Unreal 4 for some time now, so we figured that this was a perfect opportunity."

The link from which the demo could be freely downloaded has expired, but it may reappear at some point. A word of warning though: this project isn't designed with system optimisation in mind. The team recommends that computers using the demo have at least "16GB of system RAM and at least an Nvidia GTX760 or AMD equivalent".